Each year, OCR investigates thousands of cases that result in resolution agreements impacting hundreds of thousands of students. OCR understands its critical mission: Ensuring equal access to education and promoting educational excellence throughout the nation through vigorous enforcement of civil rights. OCR is constantly striving to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its case resolution process. Following are case-related examples of OCR’s work in FY 2006. These important resolutions have a positive impact on students, parents and teachers, and ultimately, on the success of our nation’s education system.